Suppliance

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sup·pli·ant (s

nt)

adj.

Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching.

A supplicant.

[From Middle English, one who supplicates, from Old French, present participle of supplier, to entreat, from Latin supplicre; see supplicate.]

suppli·ance n.

suppli·ant·ly adv.

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